Text 4965, 77 rader
Skriven 2010-12-14 06:04:00 av Dave Drum (48631.cooking)
   Kommentar till text 4915 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Grits
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Nancy Backus <=-

 NB> hominy  NB>> grits could change so much from the hominy is a mystery
 NB> to me... :)

 RH> I've heard them referred to hominy grits and hominy. Regular grits are
 RH> in the round boxes. I don't really recall how the corn is processed to
 RH> make them, suppose I could look it up but it'll be after Wednesday when
 RH> I'm done with my final exam.

Grits (aka Wallboard Spackle) are technically Hominy Grits, being ground from
dried hominy. Hominy or nixtamal is dried maize kernels which have been treated
with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.

The English term hominy is derived from the Powhatan language word for maize.
Many other Native American cultures also made hominy and integrated it into
their diet. Cherokees, for example, made hominy grits by soaking corn in a weak
lye solution obtained by leaching hardwood ash with water and beating it with a
kanona or corn beater.

Soaking the corn in lye kills the seed's germ, which keeps it from sprouting
while in storage. In addition to preserving the grain as foodstuff, this
process also affords several significant nutritional advantages over untreated
maize products. It converts some of the niacin (and possibly other B vitamins)
into a form more absorbable by the body, improves the availability of the amino
acids, and (at least in the lime-treated variant) supplements the calcium
content, balancing maize's comparative excess of phosphorus.

Rockihominy, a popular trail food in the 19th and early 20th centuries, is
dried corn roasted to a golden brown, then ground to a very coarse meal, almost
like hominy grits. Hominy can also be used as animal feed.

Mostly from the Wikipedia article.

Below is a recipe for fried hominy. I can barely manage to choke down fried
hominy only if you fry it in bacon drippings. Or as Corn Nuts (a salty,
expensive, tooth breaking snack food).

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Fried Hominy
 Categories: Vegetables 
      Yield: 1 recipe
 
      1 cn Yellow or white hominy
           Butter
           Salt and pepper
 
  Heat at least 1/2 stick butter or more in a large
  skillet. Drain the liquid from the hominy, then dump
  the hominy into the hot butter. Salt and pepper it.
  Carefully stir the hominy until it begins to brown,
  adding butter as necessary.
  
  OPTIONAL: Add diced hot dogs
  
  From: IT NEVER TURNS OUT THE SAME WAY COOKBOOK
  A Collection of Recipes from the Kitchen of Joyce &
  Clem Kohl
 
  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

ENJOY!!!

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